Join us as a Finance Business Partner, Digital X & Functions
Build strong relationships and influence a range of senior business stakeholders
You’ll provide commercial and financial insights and analysis to help influence key business decisions
You’ll be reviewing and providing input for plans, forecasts and scenario modelling for costs and investments
Gain valuable exposure and hone your expertise as you advance your career in this high profile partnering role
We offer a hybrid way of working where you’ll be based in our Edinburgh office two days a week, with the rest of your time working from home
What you'll do
You’ll join us to partner with one of three businesses within Digital X & Functions: Commerical & Institutional Chief Digital Information Office (C&I CDIO), People or Finance. C&I CDIO is the technology and digital business delivering innovative capability to C&I customers, while the People function drives the culture and people strategy of the bank, and Finance ties together the bank’s financial activities, helping the bank to make, spend and invest money wisely.
In each of these roles you’ll help to drive value for the business and assist the leadership team to make key cost and investment decisions by providing insight and commercial knowledge, while helping to manage the financial performance of the business.
You’ll also be:
Partnering senior leaders in the delivery of the bank’s strategy and influencing spend and investment priorities, by understanding their business and bringing a strong commercial acumen
Understanding and challenging financial performance, providing relevant and meaningful insight to the business including internal and external MI
Collaborating with other Finance teams to provide specific financial plans, forecasts and analysis
Using a data-led approach to solve strategic problems and contributing towards automation and simplification of key Finance-wide services
Reviewing and challenging to ensure the optimum use of resources presented in investment decisions and business cases
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll be a qualified chartered accountant with excellent stakeholder management skills and the confidence to build influential relationships founded on trust. Along with planning and organisation capabilities, you’ll be able to deal with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk and work at pace in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
You’ll also demonstrate:
Good data analysis and modelling skills
The ability to communicate complex financial information in a concise and non-technical manner
Strategic awareness and the ability to apply business knowledge, expertise and challenge to support the business